Changed behavior of show "@"

[Barry Wiseman]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Barry Wiseman (Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:05:32 -0400):

>> Upon reflection it's obvious that the above is just dumb code and that
>> (r,c) and "@" are mutually exclusive features of SHOW.  But somewhere
>> on the road to 5.0.14 the rule of which one gets ignored has changed.
>>
> Yes, this was a bugfix some time ago, where a show with row/col of a
> message that started with "@" was treated as a non-positioned "press
> enter to continue" show.  I don't recall offhand when the fix was done.

So the new philosophy is that the "@" and not the (r,c) should be disregarded.

s/bugfix/design decision/

A bit Microsoftian to presume the user's intentions, eh?  Probably a syntax error 
would have been better.

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